Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electric golf cart, Churchill wearing a ten-gallon hat, inspecting Eisenhower's butterfat Black Angus cattle. They sat on the glassed-in sun porch discussing the famous battle. Then Eisenhower took Churchill hedgehopping in the helicopter along Lee's line of advance down the Cashtown Road, along the left flank of Pickett's charge, down the Union position from Cemetery Hill to Round Top. Churchill, old Civil War buff, discussed divisions and division commanders with sure style...
Zane's novel is not particularly outstanding; but its deficiencies are less his than those of the movement and the life which he writes about. The paucity of thought and craftsmanship which mark the novels of Beatland (On The Road is the bible of this pagan country) betray the trivial superstructure which American beats have errected upon a set of basic and simple propositions about the society they reject and the values they seek to transcend. In short, the beat generation is a barren subject-matter, and the more one has to say about it, the more one becomes repetitious...
...suppress. As Puntila gropes drunkenly toward the friendship of his hired man, and as the hired man gropes cockily toward the privy parts of Puntila's red-headed daughter, the outlook seems positively sunny--until Brecht's characteristic bitterness clamps down again and the hired man takes to the road, convinced that Puntila's intermittent decency cannot be relied on, and that the daughter could not live a proletarian's life no matter how much she wanted his proletarian body...
...mark its 125th birthday this year, the Long Island Rail Road, busiest U.S. commuter line, decided to spruce up its grimy face and its public image. Last week the railroad's coaches sported the latest evidence of its campaign: a gay new insignia to replace the drab, 100-year-old L.I. in a circle. The insignia: a red, yellow and blue emblem showing a harried commuter rushing to catch a train, eyes glued to his watch and hand gripping a briefcase and umbrella. The new insignia for "The Route of the Dashing Commuter," is designed to humanize the Long...
Such improvements are part of a $65 million rehabilitation program. The road, now in the black after years of heavy losses, considers the commuter a valued customer-in contrast to many railroads (e.g., the New Haven and the N.Y. Central) that treat him as an unnecessary evil. The Long Island has repainted 140 of its 160 stations, 75 of them in colors selected by the commuters who use them, has modernized hundreds of its coaches. For the road, which once stirred only wrath from commuters, the program has caused "an impressive improvement in relations between the railroad and its riders...